The Commandrine and Other Poems - Paperback

by Joyelle McSweeney (Author)

The brilliance of Joyelle McSweeney's poems is a given; what remains delightfully open to negotiation are its methodologies and its mien. In her second book McSweeney finds her subjects in the long form; The Commandrine is a verse-play that in nine scenes tells the story of sailors Zest, Coast, Ivory, and Irish, and their run-in with the Devil.

Author Biography

Joyelle McSweeney is the author of ten books of poetry, stories, novels, essays, translation and plays, including the poetry collections The Red Bird, The Commandrine and Other Poems, Percussion Grenade, Toxicon & Arachne, and Death Styles; the novel Flet, the verse play Dead Youth, or, the Leaks, which inaugurated the Scalapino Prize for Women Playwrights, and the essay collection The Necropastoral: Poetry, Media, Occults (a work of decadent ecopoetics). With Johannes Göransson, she co-edits the international press Action Books, publishing such authors as Raúl Zurita, Hiromi Ito, Josué Guébo and Kim Hyesoon, while supporting translators like Daniel Borzutzky, Don Mee Choi, Katerine Hedeen, Katrine Øgaard Jensen, Michelle Gil-Montero, Jeffrey Angles, and many others.